The General Data Protection Regulation and China's Cybersecurity Law are aligned in many ways, though there are enough divisions that privacy counsel should be wary in creating a plan to comply with both.

With the Friday GDPR deadline approaching, the report said 63 percent of U.S. respondents stated they will be largely or completely compliant. The report said there is “a mixed picture across Europe,” however.

While lawyers in the U.S. and the U.K. have yet to feel the full effect of the #MeToo movement, the regulatory environment on the other side of the Atlantic may offer a more fertile ground for rooting out misconduct.

AMP Ltd., Australia's largest wealth manager, is facing suits from at least five firms as it grapples with a misconduct scandal. Who will fund the pursuit of those claims has become a key issue in the world of Australian class actions.

Research released by Queen Mary University of London and White & Case found that the Southeast Asian city-state is now the third most popular jurisdiction in the world in which to hold an arbitration case.

Greta Lichtenbaum, a partner at O’Melveny & Myers whose practice includes international trade and regulatory compliance, answered Corporate Counsel's questions about the impact on multinational companies of the Trump administration's renewed sanctions against Iran.

The global legal giant is working with lawyers from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Gunderson Dettmer and at least six other firms on a deal that will see the world's largest retailer acquire a majority stake in a growing e-commerce company.

Pinsent Masons is advising the BBC, as the publicly financed broadcaster and another news organization reached a settlement with Appleby in a dispute over a leak of confidential materials labeled the "Paradise Papers" last year.

The London-based legal giant has asked partners and staff to disclose personal relationships in order to avoid conflicts of interest, while also starting a hotline for individuals to anonymously report bullying, discrimination and harassment.

Seetha Ramachandran, a litigation partner at Schulte, Roth & Zabel in New York and a former federal prosecutor, discusses new trade sanctions imposed in April by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control against Russian individuals and companies.

In a new Association of Corporate Counsel survey, some 47 percent of respondents reported they must change data security standards; 45 percent said they have to alter their breach notification procedures; and 43 percent said they need to modify incident response plans.

Law firms are prepping clients for a May 25 deadline and eyeing opportunities after the regulation goes into effect. But the firms themselves are also subject to the European Union's new data privacy regulation, which has implications that go well beyond the continent.

Djaha, who joined Ropes & Gray as a lateral partner in 2009, will assume his new role in 2020. The announcement comes a few months after Ropes & Gray named partner Julie Jones the firm's chair-elect. She, too, will assume her new role in 2020.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed an investigation of Dentons after an employment tribunal ruled against the firm for dismissing a former recruitment manager. The move comes the same week that Dentons suspended a Canadian partner in an unrelated matter.

The move was spurred by the government's assertion that, contrary to terms of a 2017 settlement, ZTE paid full bonuses to employees that had engaged in illegal conduct and failed to issue letters of reprimand.

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